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Correos presents its first ecological vehicles (SPA)

Posted by | Mar 20, 2008 | |

Correos has presented its first electric vans and bicycles for mail and parcel deliveries, particularly in protected historic quarters and pedestrianised town centres. This initiative joins other initiatives promoted by the public postal company, aimed at reducing environmental impacts as far as possible.

To set up of the pilot projects Correos has purchased five commercial vehicles and nine bicycles adapted for carrying small loads. These vehicles will make the postmen and women’s job easier in pedestrianised areas, as up to now they have had to deliver large volumes of mail on foot and by hand in these areas. The initial investment made by the postal company stands at euro 139,000.

The vans will be used for mail deliveries in Barcelona and Seville and the bicycles in Granada and various towns in the provinces of Ciudad Real and Toledo. In Madrid and Zaragoza both types of vehicles will be tested. With this experience, Correos hopes to check the adaptability of these means of transport in different urban settings.

Lower usage and maintenance costs

The model of van chosen has a useful load capacity of over 400 kg and its side doors and rear door are very easy to handle, even for the bulkiest parcels. Right now, these types of vehicles are more expensive than conventional vehicles, although their useful life is longer and they are less expensive to use and maintain. This advantage is added to the environmental benefits, since, because they do not use oil-based fuel, the contaminating effects are drastically reduced. Furthermore, they do not generate any noise.

With this measure, Correos, with an average investment of 14 million euros in its fleet –made up of more than 13,000 vehicles, including lorries, vans and motorbikes- in the last three years, will step up its contribution to protecting the environment. The postal company already bought 28 Euro-4 type lorries in 2006, ahead of the anti-pollution guidelines and regulations adopted by the European Union, and is now starting to include ecological vans and bicycles in its fleet.

Once these vehicles and bicycles have been tested and adapted for mail deliveries in the respective pilot projects, Correos will gradually add new ecological units.

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El Corte Inglés selects Azkar for its Logistics Operations in China

Posted by | Mar 10, 2008 | |

Azkar Overseas, the subsidiary of Transportes Azkar, S.A. the leading international provider of integrated logistics services on the Iberian Peninsula and Islands, has been selected by the Spanish giant in Departament Stores retail businesses, El Corte Ingles, to develop and run its logistics operations for consolidated cargo from China.

To be more specific, in the port cities of Xiamen and Shenzhen, both located in Southern China, Azkar Overseas will coordinate with all the suppliers of the Corte Ingles all orders that are less than a container load, the terms of delivery, the receiving of cargo, quantity control, sorting and warehousing of cargo, loading of ocean containers, booking with the pingship lines for equipment and vessel space, thus including customs export clearance and procedures and any other necessary process and documentation relevant to the course of action and related to packing list, Bill of lading, etc.

In order to make this happen, Azkar has made available to El Corte Ingles, the space of two warehouse facilities, one of them being 8000 square meters located in the free zone at the port of Chiwan in Shenzhen and the other of 10,000 square meters located at the port of Xiamen.

In addition, Azkar has created and developed its own exclusive web application that coordinates and allows the proper tracking of the process via Internet, allowing a complete vision online of the entire operation completely available to its client.

With this new operation, El Corte Ingles, once again demonstrates its leadership in Spain as an innovative in the logistics processes, reducing its transit times of its less than container load cargo and optimizing the cargo capacity within the ocean containers being consolidated.

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Correos logistics deployment for 9 march

Posted by | Mar 6, 2008 | |

On 9 March Correos will activate D-Day for the General Elections and Regional Elections to the Parliament of Andalusia, a huge mobilisation of human, technical and transport resources to coordinate its logistics networks and guarantee the delivery of all the postal votes received in any of its more than 2,200 offices around the country to the corresponding Polling Station.

Correos is going to mobilise more than 21,000 workers in total, including delivery and office personnel, and practically all its vehicle fleet, made up of around 13,000 cars and motorbikes, normally used for post collection and delivery. In this way, the public postal operator contributes, as in other elections, to the voting in the General Elections and Elections to the Parliament of Andalusia to be held this Sunday, 9 March.

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FedEx opens new depot in Spain

Posted by | Mar 5, 2008 | |

FedEx has opened a new depot in Riba-roja de Túria in the region of Valencia, Spain, to expand its network and improve its service in the region, according to Spanish newspaper Transmarket.

The construction of the new facility follows an increasingly growing demand in the most important sectors of industry in Valencia including pottery, footwear, textiles and clothes.

The depot will be the operational centre of the company in the Levantine area and cover up to 14 routes in the provinces Valencia and Castellón. With the new facility, FedEx also expects to improve delivery times in some areas by up to 5 hours, Transmarket further reported.

The newly inaugurated depot is the third official operational centre of the company adding to the two facilities in Madrid, functioning as one operational unit as well as two depots Barcelona operating as one.

“There has been a growing demand from our local customers and potential clients”, said Ian Silverton, operational manager at FedEx Spain. “It was very important for us to continue providing high quality services for all our customers and FedEx business activities in this region.”

The Spanish FedEx subsidiary generated the revenues of about EUR 48 million in 2006. It employs 374 people and has a fleet of 75 delivery vehicles.

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Publication of Postal Directive marks start date for real market opening

Posted by | Feb 27, 2008 | |

The publication marks the entry into force of the directive and sets the clock ticking for abolishing legal monopolies on postal services by 31 December 2010. The Directive is the result of a broad political consensus on the way forward for the regulatory framework of European postal services. The Commission will monitor and assist Member States pro-actively in implementing the Directive. In particular, it will pay close attention to potential entry barriers that would deprive users of the benefit of a dynamic and open market.

The mission of EU postal reform continues. Next steps will require close monitoring of the development of competition notably by national regulatory authorities whose role has now been strengthened further. Particular attention will be paid to quality and prices of universal postal service. The Commission services will assist Member States in the transposition of the Directive to ensure that postal reform remains true to its objective of high quality and innovative postal services.

The text published reflects the overall political agreement between the institutions and keeps the key elements of the Commission’s initial proposal and in particular: the accomplishment of the internal market of Community postal services via the abolition of the reserved area in all Member States; the confirmation of the scope and standard of universal service; reinforcement of consumers’ rights and upgrading of the role of national regulatory authorities; the offering of a list of measures Member States may take to safeguard and finance, if necessary, the universal service.

With the removal of reserved areas, users of postal services can expect the services available to them to develop and further improve. In this open environment, universal service providers will be motivated to become more reliable and efficient and to further increase their customer focus in the light of potential competition from new market entrants. In line with the goals of the Lisbon agenda, full market opening will also directly foster the creation of new jobs in new postal companies, and, indirectly, in the industries dependent on the postal sector.

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